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ERNEST E. AUSTEN— NEW AFRICAN 



Cadicera speciosa, sp. n. (fig. 2). 



Q. — Length (4 specimens) 16*25 to 16*75 mm. ; width of head 5*4 to 5'6 mm. ; 

 width of front at vertex 0*75 mm. ; length of proboscis 3*5 to 4'5 mm. ; length 

 of wing 16 to 17 mm. 



Fig. 2.— Cadicera .yjeciosa, Austen, $.. X 3. 



Black, dorsum of thorax with markings of bright ochre-yellow pile, abdomen ivith 

 a band of silvery hairs ; wings, especially next veins, either more or less tawny- 

 ochraceous {except tips, which are dark brown), or dark brown, except extreme base, 

 costal cells, and proximal portions of principal veins, which are tawny-ochraceous. — 

 Presenting a deceptive superficial resemblance to C. obscura, Ric, but distinguishable 

 inter alia by the bright ferruginous or cinnamon-rufous coloration of the antennae, 

 legs, and the terminal joint of the palpi ; by the terminal joint of the palpi being 

 less acuminate, and clothed manly with ochraceous or ochraceous-rufous, instead of 

 with dark brown or brownish hairs ; by the mesopleurae being entirely clothed with 

 black hairs, instead of for the most part with pale yellowish hairs; and by the 

 presence of a conspicuous band of short, appresscd, glistening silvery-white hairs on 

 the hind border of the tergite of the second abdominal segment. 



Head : front and face shining black, former rugose above callus ; between 

 latter and antennae is a transverse band of dull, yellowish-grey pollen, which 

 sends off a narrow, downward offshoot along each side of face, next inner margin 

 of eye ; sides of face, basi-occipital region, and lower portion of posterior orbits 

 clothed with buff-yellow hair ; occiput, except small quadrate area immediately 

 below vertex, yellowish-grey pollinose ; ocelli wanting ; proximal joint of palpi 

 greyish clove-brown, lower surface clothed proximally with buff-yellow and 

 distally with dark brown or blackish hairs, terminal joint of palpi elongate, 

 bluntly pointed at tip ; first and second joints of antennae somewhat darker than 

 third joint. Thorax : front border of dorsum clothed with appressed, bright 

 ochre-yellow hairs, which on median third are somewhat sparser than elsewhere ; 

 hind margin of main portion of dorsum, in front of scutellum and including outer 



